With A WOMAN'S WORTH, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice--and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A RETURN TO LOVE-- to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author illuminates her thought-provoking positions on such issues as beauty and age, relationships and sex, children and careers, and the reassurance and reassertion of the feminine in a patriarchal society. Cutting across class, race, religion, and gender, A WOMAN'S WORTH speaks powerfully and persuasively to a generation in need of healing, and in search of harmony.

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Reading this book I felt proud to be a woman!I don't have children but, after reading this book, felt restored in my outlook of motherhood being a very valuable contribution to society and families. I have always achieved recognition and acknowledgement through my career and relationships, however, I now look forward to motherhood - a new plan for me!It is a great confidence and self-esteem builder.I would recommend this book as touching reading to anyone. Very empowering reading! I wish anyone entering a relationship with a woman would read this to realise the fantastically empathic skills women have to offer a relationship and family! My soul is restored!

Williamson goes far deeper and wider than psychological self help normally can. In dealing with our self-image problems, she walks through mental walls between personal, social, spiritual and worldly concerns. She shows how the big picture of our significance looks from her open-hearted view. For Williamson, love and marriage are not just necessary "conventions of the world"; they are schools of the soul: "... that is why we learn to love: to care so completely for one other person that our hearts break open wide and we learn to love them all". (p. 99)

The expansion of context is more uplifting than any exhortation to positive thinking.

--author of A Galaxy of Immortal Women: The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization